[mythtv] BBC series link

[Tom Hughes]

In message <45857967.7080908 at prolingua.co.uk>
          David Matthews <dm at prolingua.co.uk> wrote:

> Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:31:34PM +0000, David Matthews wrote:
> >> I'm not happy about proposing this as a patch because of the use of the
> >> private types.  I guess the BBC could change this at any time.  Does
> >> anyone have any more information about this?
> >>
> > 
> > As Rudy said, they don't generally change these things once they've been
> > rolled out as it affects all the STB's out there. So please put this up
> > as a patch (and assign it to me please)
> 
> I've created a ticket with the changes I needed in order to pick up this
> information and put it in the database.  It's very simple.  The ticket
> is currently assigned to danielk since there doesn't seem to be an
> obvious way to assign a ticket any longer.
> 
> What concerns me a bit about this is why they used a private type when
> there are standard types they could have used.  It looks as though type
> 0x01 should be the programId and 0x02 the seriesId.  I gather the BBC
> are currently running some sort of trial of their own PVR so it may have
> something to do with that.

Maybe they're broadcasting it on a private type for testing purposes
and will switch it over when they're ready to go live? It would any
problems if the boxes that support it start being sold before the
broadcasters are happy with the data.

BTW this is all designed to support "Freeview Playback" which is how
the boxes that support it are going to be branded. More information at:

http://www.pvruk.co.uk/freeview_playback.cfm

Tom

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